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May 26, 1931. J. sALlsBuRY l,806,824

BUTTON LOOP Filed Jan. 25, 1930 JessuF EALIISBUHY ATTy atentecl May 26, 1931 I, UNITED s'rA'frEs PATENT oFfFlvcE .Inssor sALIsBURY, or'VI-IAMDEN, ooNNEozrIoUr, AssIGNoR 'ro THE AMERICAN BUCKLE COMPANY, or wns'r Havnn, ooNNEc'rIoU'r, CORPORATION or ooNNEo'rIoUT BUTTON LOOP Application `filed January`25, 1930. Serial No. 423,435.

This invention relates to button loops providingvmeans by which a strap may be conveniently connected with, and disconnected from, a button carried by a' garment or the likeintended to be -supported by the Strap.

The objects of the invention are to providefor a button loop a button-retaining loop the members of which have two normal positions of an open and closed entrance; to provide for the spring arms of a button loop a toggle-jointed button-retaining loop the togglemembers of which are normally out of alignment in either of two positions reciprocally assumed against the tension of the spring arms; to provide for a button loop a button retaining loop having an entrance normallyopen to receive the shank of a button moved along` the plane of the loop, .the shank being engageable 'with opposite portions of the retaining loop to close andv open the entrance; to provide ,the toggle members with cam surfaces engageable by the shank of a button moved along the plane of the loop to operate a closed retaining loop to an open position to admit the shank; and to provide the toggle members with a substantial and symmetrical display surface for advertising matter.

The nvention consists in the novel constructions, to be hereinafter described or claimed, for carrying out the above stated objects and such other objects a-s may hereinafter appear.

` The invention may be characterized by reference to one illustrative device embodying the invention and illustrated by the several figures in the accompanying drawings in which the Figure 1 is a front elevation of the improved button loop illustrating theretaining loop in perspective and in open position; the Figure 2-is a side elevation thereof; theV Figure 3 is a front elevation thereof illustrating the retaining loop in closed position; and the Figurel is a plan view of one of 'the togg'le members before being folded.

The petitioner is aware that togglejointed V -sections have been used in connection with button loops, but he is not aware that such sections have been so combined with a button loop as to provide two normal at-rest positions presenting aibutton retaining loop in either open or closed position. While the invention is not limited to any specific form of construction and the details of the device may be varied to produce the novel features hereinafter claimed, the device as illustrated is a button loop compri-sing the suspension loop 1 providing the bar 2 around which may be looped a strap upon which the device is intended to depend, the button-receiving loop 3, and the toggle-jointed button-retaining loop 4;. `The button loop is preferably formed of a piece of resilient wire of which a middle portionis bent to form the suspension loop 1, the remaining end portions of the wire depending from the suspension loop l to provide the wire side arms 5 and 6 cooperating to formthe button-receiving loopA 8 and associated loop, the side arms 5 and 6 terminating in the relatively free looped extremities 7 and 8, respectively. The button-retaining loop 4:, comprising the toggle members 9 and 10, is preferably made of sheet metal, each member being stamped out approximately'in the form illustrated by the Figure 4 and folded upon the dotted lines 11 and 12 so that each of the members 9 and 10 have thewalls 13 and 14 'relatively spaced in order that between them a Wire side arm 5 or 6 may be received and thus provide a button loop of the reversible-fa'ced type that will admit the front elevation, as illustrated aby .either of the Figures 1 or 3, or also the reversed position as also a front elevation thereof. The form of each member 9 and 10 includes a portion of the shank-seat 15, the cam-surface 16, and the substantial and symmetrical display surface 17 adapted for advertising matter.V .The members 9 and 10 are bored through both walls 13 and 14, as at 18, for relative pivotal connection and, as at 119, for pivotal mounting upon the looped extremities 7 and 8, respectively, a portion of the arms 5 and 6, including the eXtremities 7 and 8, being enclosed within the toggle members'v) and 10.-

In operation, the toggle members 9 and 10, being normally out of alignment by reason of the toggle-knee 21 being positioned above a dead center which might be represented by a straight line passing throughthe center of the extremity loops 7 and 8, as illustrated by the Figure 1, to provide an open entrance through which the button-shank 22 may enter the button-retaining loop 4 and engage the knee 21 to operate the toggle-joint against the tension of the resilient arms 5 and 6 thereby expanded until the toggle members 9 and 10 reach and pass the dead centerand the arms 5 and 6 contract to maintain the. knee 21 positioned below the dead centeriand the button-shank 22 securely retained within the loop 4 of which the entrancc is closed 'as illustrated by the Figure 3. To remove the button-shank 22 from withinfthe retaining loop 4, the shank is moved along the plane of the button'loop and against the loop interior adjacent thev closed'entrance with sufficient force to .overcome the tension of the arms 5 and G and to reciprocate the movement of the members 9 and 10 to a normal open position again in which position the members may remain until operated to a closed position by the entrance again of a button-shank. However should the entrance to the retaining loop 4 be acciidently closed before 4a shank enters the loop the W.i-nltmay forcibly engage the cam-surfaces 16 of the members 9 and`10 toforce an expansion of the arim 5 and 6 and a consequent opening of the entrance to admit the shank.

I claim:

1. A reversible-faced button loop 'having depending spring arms J erminating in relatively free extremities, and vboggle-jointed members pivotally mounted upon the extremities, each member vbeing made lfrom sheet metal and folded with parts relatively spaced to enclose the extremities;

2. A reversible-faced button loop having depending spring arms terminating in 'relativelv free extremities, and toggle-jointed members pivotally mounted upon the extremities, each member being made `from sheet metal and folded with parts relatively spaced to enclose the extremities, themembers including a substantial and .symmetri al display surface upon each face of the loop:

3. A button loophaving depending rcsilient arms terminating in extremities relatively free, a d t,ggle-jointcd members pivotally mounted upon the extremities and having a knee normally positioned upon either side of an imaginary dead center line running through the extremities, the toggle members providing a button-shank retaining loop having` a normally open or closed entrance according to the position of the toggle knee;

4. A button loop having depending resilient arms terminating in relatively free extremities, and toggle-jointed members pivotally mounted upon the extremities 'and having a knee normally positioned upon either side of an imaginary dead center line running through the extremities, the toggle axialz'alignment, the arm portions terminating in looped extremities relatively spaced,

.,andtoggle-jointedimembers pivotally mounted upon the looped extremities and having a knee normally positioned upon either side of'an imaginary dead center line running through theextrem'ities, the toggle members providing a button-shank retaining loop, the knee of the toggle-joi-nt, positioned upon one side of the dead center-line, providing the retaining loop -with a .normally open entrance, and the knee positioned upon the other side lof the line providing the retaining 'loop Witha normally closed-entrance, the knee 'being movable from one normal'position to the `other by means of force exerted along the plane of the loops against a buttonshanl: in cngagement with the knee, the toggle vmembers being provided at the entrancc With external cam surfaces for engagement by a `button-shank to expand a closed. entrance;

6. A revcrsible-fac-ed button loop comprising a resilient Wire .a middle portion `of which is bent to forma Suspension loop, the wire end portions depending therefrom to provide opposite side arm portions of associated loops in axial alignment, the arm portions terminating in looped extremities relatively spaced, and toggle-jointed members pivotally mounted upon the looped extremities and having a knee normally positioned upon either side of an imaginary dead center line'running through the extremities, the members being made from sheet metal folded with parts relatively spaced to partly enclose the Wire end portions and providing button-shank retaining loop, the knee positioned upon one side of .the dead center line providing the retaining loop With a normally open entrance, and the knee positioned upon the other si de of the line providing the retaining loop with a normally closed entrance, the knee being movable from one normal position to the other by means of force exerted along the plane of the loops against av button-shank in engagement with the knee, the `toggle members being provided at the entrance with external cam surfaces for engagement by a button-shank to expand a closed entrance.

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